Solid state or tube for testing?

[jimilee]

I’m curious what you use when testing pedals. I use tube amps. The only SS I have is a crate GC-10, I believe it is.

 

[DGWVI]

Solid state for me. My primary amp is a Fender Frontman 212r.

 

[Betty Wont]

I use a cheap 90's Gorilla solid state for testing. Because I don't have to baby the tubes. I just flip it on, strum twice, flip it off. I use a tube amp for actually playing through though.

 

[Mcknib]

Tube mostly

Mainly a little 1W Blackstar HT1R which AFAIK isn't all tube

A Fender Champ 12

and a 100W Fender Twin amp not reverb the pro tube series

I was thinking of getting a solid state for testing........

Tube pedals funnily enough!

I used to have an old Fender Deluxe 90 ss wish I'd kept that cleans were immense

 

[KR Sound]

A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

 

[ICTRock]

I’m curious what you use when testing pedals. I use tube amps. The only SS I have is a crate GC-10, I believe it is.

blackheart little giant, nice even fender cleans

 

[Nostradoomus]

I try a bit of everything. Tube/cab sim with a Revv head, SS with an Ampeg SS150, a tiny Marshall MS-2 and proper head/cab with a Laney vh100r.

 

[Passinwind]

I’ve only been doing bass pedals and currently don’t even have a tube amp that isn’t in pieces and waiting on final assembly.

 

[RetiredUnit1]

Did you know that microwave ovens are really just tube amps? And they use tubes because NOTHING solid state can touch 1100 watts. Long live tubes!!!!

 

[Robert]

My bench amp is a Princeton Reissue.

I wanted something similar to my Twin (but smaller) since that's the sound I'm familiar with and would be more likely to notice an issue with the pedal being tested.

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

Headphone amp to test builds for function. Then both ss and tube for "toanal analysis."

 

[Fingolfen]

Both... I typically test with my Katana and my Vox AC15

 

[PapaBear]

I use Tube amps, usually my Twin Reverb!

 

[RetiredUnit1]

I use Tube amps, usually my Twin Reverb!

Is that a reissue or ???

I have an original 1968 Fender Silverface Deluxe Reverb (SFDR) that I bought for $300 in 1991.... The old speaker was tired and smelled of smokey bar rooms, so I replaced it with a Jensen P12N. Chime city!!!! The circuit was before CBS had a chance to muck around with it, so it's a blackface circuit. I have a lot of amps I built too.....

 

[chip]

My bench amp is a Blackstar Fly. It used to be an old Teal-stripe Peavey Rage, but now I'm babying that in case anyone famous plays one and its value shoots up to 10x its original purchase price.

(That's for "does this work?" testing. I use a bunch of other things for "does this sound good?" testing.)

 

[Diynot]

80’s Pignose first for proof of life and make sure the pedal isn’t going into possible tube/eardrum destroying oscillations then on to the ‘65 Epiphone pathfinder

 

[PapaBear]

Is that a reissue or ???

I have an original 1968 Fender Silverface Deluxe Reverb (SFDR) that I bought for $300 in 1991.... The old speaker was tired and smelled of smokey bar rooms, so I replaced it with a Jensen P12N. Chime city!!!! The circuit was before CBS had a chance to muck around with it, so it's a blackface circuit. I have a lot of amps I built too.....

Yes Reissue

 

[Gordo]

I have this crummy little Harmony 40w SS that I put a 12” speaker in and it sounds terrific. It’s a nice clean slate to work from.

 

[Coda]

I use whatever I’m using. Test rig is my rig rig. My two amps are a modded Blues Jr and an Acoustic Control Corp 134, which I use with a foundation pedal of some sort. Some pedals sound best through one amp, and shit through the other, and vice-versa…

 

[finebyfine]

both a solid state and a hybrid tube. i don’t go out of my way but I should be better about testing into both, its kind of nice getting an idea of how a pedal plays with tubes